>> it's frankly scary that they are calling it two bombs. >> it was an stlulgts beautiful day gone tragedy iing. >> these people desperately wanted to survive, and -- or the individuals probably somewhere today saying i hope i got away with it. >> boyleston street once blood stained now repainted. boston has unfinished bess. >> it is an important step in the healing process. >> kind of fighting to -- fighting yourself to move forward. >> to stand here today in front of you to thank you personally for saving my life.

>> that's the kind of city this is. >> boston strong goes on. ♪ [ bell tolling ]

>> boston strong. moments ago bells ringing to mark one year to the minute since a city, a country was changed forever. throughout this day we've seen dig netaries, first responders, and, of course, survivors prove that time doesn't heal all wounds, but it helps. >> today we remember. her energy, her zest, her adventure, and passion. a generosity of spirit. a light that will never fade. we remember ling zi lu. heart and sparkling eyes, music and a welcome dream of a smile that beams forever. we remember martin richard. tough and competitive, kind and

caring. a dorchester kid through and through. and we will remember sean collier, dedicated with honor, trusted and respected. badge 310. we will remember. ♪ i went up to the mountain because you asked me to ♪ >> as a runner with many boston marathon finishes behind me, there are few places more special to me than the finish line of the boston marathon. on that day i recall watching throngs of tired and elated runners celebrating what many of us know as an amazing

accomplishment. at 2:49 everything changed. i mean everything. >> as i walked in, i remember very clearly being struck by how much it looked like one of our exercises. the trauma teams, the nurses. everybody was where they normally would be when we practice our mass casualty exercises. >> nurses deal with trauma and tragedy almost every day. not on the scale certainly of the marathon, but this day was very different. ♪ but then i go on again because you asked me to ♪ >> there have been painful steps to take, but we are taking them, and we are learning again to walk without fainting, to run without growing weary, and some

have even learned to dance. soaring on wing like eagles. ♪ i may never get there may never get there ♪ ♪ ♪ sooner or later ♪ sooner or later ♪ is where i will go >> at other times today survivors spoke volumes without making a sound, like this letter from jeff bowman who you saw in our open simply titled "dear boston." it's a thank you note to the city who rallied around him. president obama observed a moment of silence at the white house to mark the exact moment that the first bomb exploded. the same time vice president joe biden offered his own show of

support to the people of boston. >> they figure if they instill enough fear, we will change, and it infuriates them that we refuse to bend, refuse to change, refuse to yield to fear. >> nbc's ron mott is in boston for us. what is the mood like there today? >> well, what a day here in boston today. not the prettiest day that boston has ever seen, but one of the most beautiful. so many people have turned out today. you can see the crowds breaking up just behind us here. to take part in this moment of silence we had just a few moments ago. while hearts are heavy, no doubt about that, because of the folks that were lost there last year during that terrible, terrible week, the three here that lost their lives along the race line and then, of course, the police officer from m.i.t. who died a few days later. hearts are heavy. there's a palpable sense of solidarity here in this city. we talk about boston strong.

i think if you polled a lot of people here they say this is boston stronger one year later. this city has galvanized around this tragedy a year ago, and folks are not only ready to continue to honor the memories of the folks that are lost here, but to get ready for a race because a lot of people put hard work into running the boston marathon last year, and, unfortunately, because of those two bombs that went off, we're not able to finish what they started. we're looking forward to that on monday. it's patriots day, a big day here in new england, especially across the commonwealth here. folks were looking to get back into their racing shoes and to run this 26.2 miles, but it's been an extraordinary day here. >> all right. ron mott in boston. thanks so much. sports illustrated executive editor b.j.schechter is from boston, and we are lucky that today he is at the head of the table with us. "s.i." gathered thousands of people at the finish line for this week's cover shoot and that latest issue is out tomorrow. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> as a bostonian, you know, what is this day mean to you?

>> i think it's an incredibly emotional day. watching the package, those feelgsz come back. i walk those streets. i went to school there. i grew up there. ever sense i can walk i went to the -- if weather it was at the finish line on boyleston street. to think a year ago that there was this horrific terrorist attack and the three lives were lost, but thousands of lives were affected. just like nobody forgot 9/11, nobody is ever going to forget this, and the marathon will never be the same, but on the same note we hear boston strong, and the city was so resilient, rallied behind the first responders, the survivors, sports teams. i think it's a tremendous tribute to the people of boston to recover but not forget. this is a tremendous moment for the city and the nation at large. i want to play a little bit from

patrick down, one of the survivors who spoke today. >> it is right here in the city of boston. whether our families have been here for generations or recently called boston home, we know that we have written another chapter in a rich history of revolutionary people. >> absolutely true. part of how boston has rebounded is not just sports and the camaraderie that always attends that from growing up there, but also the sox and the celtics and the bruins. boston has been able to rely on the sports teams and the camaraderie that comes from attending these events to help rebuild. i think two or three days after the bombings there was a bruins game. a rendition of the national anthem where the crowd just kind of took over. then, of course, david ortiz's

infamous speech which we can't repeat here, but the message was heard loud and clear. >> the red sox went on the road. they were in cleveland, and they hung a jersey in the dugout that said 617 strong. >> the duck boats through the city of boston ending up at the finish line really became a celebration, a memorial, a tribute to all the survivors, everybody that did so much in the aftermath of this hor ifb event, and i think, unfortunately, there was this tragedy, but it brought out so

much of the human spirit, and that's what we remember today. >> for a city that's often been described as the -- it did the opposite of what the bombers hoped for. it made boston stronger. i love the photo -- all the photos that you guys have in this week's "sports illustrated." if we can show this one, thousands of people at the finish line. you have the police commissioner, mayor, and, of course, many of the survivors coming together a year later. >> boston is always a city that has a chip on its shoulder. second fiddle to new york and maybe chicago and l.a. too. really gritty resolve. whether you are arguing about the sox or saying we're not going to let terrorists affect our lives. our creative director had the idea to create this big flash

mob, and we close the streets at boyleston street for two hours on saturday morning, and over 3,000 people gathered in celebration of this one-year anniversary, and it really was a celebration. not so much a memorial. >> bisz of human spirit on display. b.j., thank you so much, and we'll definitely be watching for that cover picture when it comes out tomorrow. much more cycle as we roll on for this april 15th, 2014. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clinically proven as effective as brushing. ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth? the twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. they taste like a treat,

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a major escalation today in what is arguably the biggest east-west crisis since the cold war. ukraine carried out special ops against pro-russian militants that were armed. they retook an airport in the eastern speaking portion of ukraine. the nation's acting president said he is flushing out armed ininsurgentents that have seized control of several government buildings over the past few days. the u.s. is blaming russia, russia is blaming the u.s. while experts say putin is trying to strengthen his negotiation position ahead of russia's talks on thursday in geneva with the u.s., the e.u., and ukraine. the white house is standing by ukraine saying kiev has the right to respond to the provocations and to be clear, president obama is not considering providing lethal aid. let's get to friend of the show howard fineman, editorial director of the huffington post media group. always great to see you. >> hi. >> crisis after crisis, whether it be iran or syria, the united

states continues to emerge as anything but confident and powerful and the situation in ukraine seems to be following in the same path, and the "wall street journal" has a pretty brutal piece out today asking a question that i think is on many people's minds. they say we know mr. obama didn't run for president to engage in great power politics. it's in the job description. is he still interested in doing his job? who better to answer that than you, howard. how do you respond to that? zi think the president is very much interested in doing his job. i think people around him admit that syria was a mess diplomatically. the president drew a line in the sand, the famous red line about chemical weapons in syria, and then didn't follow through, and

the danger there is i think it gave putin the idea that the president could be pushed around. the difficulty here is that the president has no really good options. i think he is very engaged. he is very much on the job on this, but he has got difficulties that make it hard for him to move in a forceful way. as you say. military is out. we don't have the navy in the black sea. we don't have the troops on the ground. >> meanwhile, europe is divided. the countries close to the old soviet union, lithuania, and poland, which are very nationalistic. i have been in both places. they're very nationalistic. they fear the russians deeply. they're the ones who want to move militarily. and with strong economic sanctions. germany is in the middle, and the last thing germany wants to do is take a war-like stance with russia. >> yeah. howard, build on that point, would you, because how much of

this is really about obama as a leader who is trying to do certain things, and how much of it is about larger geopolitical shifts. bipartisan exhaustion with too much military entanglement, a shifting role of nato. i think kissinger was right that we are lucky that ukraine is not part of nato are because neither nato nor the u.s. wants to have any collective automatic response here. how much is a larger historical shift? >> i think very much so. >> the people around him admit that syria was a mess, but this thing isn't barack obama's fault. i have talked about the e.u. and the divisions there. that's one factor for sure. the fact that the united states in the last ten years or so or more has spent several trillion dollars and exhausted a lot of public patience with wars in iraq and afghanistan has a lot to do with it also. and it's a complicated situation

in ukraine. unlike poll appeared and lithuania, ukraine is -- it's kind of like a cane and abel biblical brother situation in the ukraine. it's difficult to untangle. there are some legitimate concerns of russian speakers in some parts of the ukraine. vladimir putin is going it take advantage of every single one of them that he can. he has played a long, deep game, and he has waited for the west, including the united states and europe to kind of exhaust itself with military -- great power adventures in places like the persian gulf, and he is moving at a time when history favors somebody who is as brazen as he is in this part of the world. >> you talk about no good options and you talk about picking the right historical moment. well, part of that is the economic situation in europe and in america folks that are screaming for more sanctions and hash sher sanctions and aren't really dealing with the idea that the globe is interconnected, especially economically if we were to work

with europe to have harsher sanctions and buy less of their oil. that would hurt russia, and it would also hurt europe at a time that europe is still recovering, and that would hurt the american economy and not sure if folks really think that that is worth it for america. >> it's a fine line, and the president is carefully searching for what else he can do by way of economic pressure without sending europe into another recession. the most immediate thing that the russians can do to create havoc in europe is to cut off natural gas supplies. that would hurt them as well. there are things we can do in hydrofuels here that can take pressures off europe, and we ought to get at it because it's important. it's important if we want to use economic pressure as opposed to the military pressure we can't apply. to get putin to behave.

i think what the ukrainians are doing now is that they're taking military abbing because they realize that they've got to raise the cost to putin of an invasion. that's what's really going on here. they feel -- i think the ukrainians feel that they're going to get invaded one way or the other probably. they better show putin that if europe isn't going to get anything and the united states isn't going to do anything, that the ukrainians are willing to fight and die for their country. >> that's what's happening. >> you mention energy. some are making the case that if we approve the xl pipeline that that will solve this crisis. let's hear general james jones, former national security advisor to president obama make that case. >>ed international bullies that seek to use scarcity are watching intently, so if we want to make mr. putin's day and strengthen his hand, we should reject keystone. if we want to gain an important measure of national energy

security, jobs, tax revenue, and prosperity to advance our work on the spectrum of energy solutions that don't rely on carbon, then it should be approved. >> this make sense to you, howard? >> i'm not sure keystone pipeline is the most efficient and shrewdest energy answer that there is. i'm not willing to go along with general jones necessarily. >> yeah, that's a much deeper conversation. howard fineman, great analysis as always. thanks for joining us. >> up next on this day we all stand boston strong. a very deserving recipient of one of journalism's pop prizes. ...and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve... ...for all day relief. "start your engines"

breaking news. the search formal asia flight tops the news cycle. blue fin is back in the water after an aborted mission yesterday. a planned 16-hour trip was cut to just six after officials said the subhad exceeded its maximum depth. while scanning the indian ocean floor. blue finish is creating a 3-d map of the deep where officials believe the flight may have gone

down. monday's search yielded no clues. before this afternoon's launch, investigators shifted the search zone away from the deepest water in the area. >> the system traveling across the country brought high wind and snow to the midwest before giving the southeast a soaking. now it's headingere to the northeast. no thank you. expect strong thunderstorms with heavy downpours and gusty winds throughout the evening. awesome. >> charming. sky watchers retreated to a rare view last night and early this morning. it is called a blood moon, and it happens during a total lunar eclipse giving the moon a coppery criminalson glow. if you missed it last night, not to worry. this was the first of four lunar eclipses in the next 18 months for north america. as for dire warnings that the blood moon is a sign of dooms day. lucky, it seems we're all still here. >> oh, good. >> and the 2014 pulitzer prizes are out. the top journalism prize for

public service goes to the guardian and the washington post for breaking the news that the nsa's u.s. and international surveillance was far broader than the u.s. government had admitted. those stories were, of course, based on leaks by former nsa contractor edward snowden. the justice department is seeking to prosecute him for those leaks if he ever returns to the u.s. now, both "the guardian" and "the washington post" take the public service honors for their coverage. the honors for "the post" said aring, according to committee, that they helped the public understand how it fit into the larger framework of national security. people often debate whether pulitzers got it right, and that's the case on this one. we'll spin a little bit, guys. >> a big ingreed jent how elites and leaders look at the product of leaks, and i think here what

you have is another vote from people who take this kind of thing seriously for the idea that these disclosures about the nsa were important, were significant, were jushlistic and news worthy, and ultimately i think if you look at some of the changes from the president on down have sparked some needed reforms in what was a bloated sort of baseless type of. >> think a vote of confidence and having this stuff out in the open so we can debate it. >> i'm someone that feels mixed about that award and reporting on swaerd edward's story. one of the the awards that wasn't controversial was the boston globe for their incredible reporting of the boston bombing. this comes at a poignant time with today being a one-year

anniversary, the editor of the paper said this about the award. he said there's nobody in this room that wanted to cover the story there was a lot of missed manufacturings, and a lot of things that were said that weren't actually accurate, and i think they did a good job of balancing delivering the facts and also being empathetic about it. that's a difficult thing to do today in journalism. pete williams, i want to mention, who was also part of this reporting who found that perfect balance was very patient and waited to get the accurate information, and i think pete and the boston globe are real evidence that the journalism does still exist. i think they both deserve some credit here for their stellar reporting. >> absolutely. so important on that day and in the weeks that followed to have

someone trust and reliable. i want to pilot the work of chris hanby at the center for public integrity. he won pulitzer for exposing a rigged system that was keeping minors with black lung in west virginia in particular from receiving benefits. an outrageous story that was highlighted on "nightline" by brian ross. let's take a look at that. >> this is a story that begins in coal country with miners out of breath and out of luck. >> it was about big money and black lung. gary fox died at the age of 58, denied for ten years the $700 to $900 or so a month he would have been due under a special program for miners. had the coal company doctors, this one and this one, found he had disabling black lung, but they did not.

>> toipt highlight the pulitzer for fiction which went to donna tart. an incredible novelist. gold finch is her third book. she's an old school sort of woman that takes her time. her first novel "the secret history" which i love, came out in 1992, and then another ten years for her next one. then over ten years for the gold finch. people don't do it like that anymore. she takes three or four years just to figure out what the novel is going to be about, and then starts witling it down. she writes by hand. she's from mississippi. old school novelist. proud to see donna tart getting the attention she deserves. >> that's quality.

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map is the more expensive daycare in comparison to college. kyled care is becoming so expensive it's actually costing jobs. many moms and some dad who's want to work simply can't afford to do so. may help to explain why after 30 years of decline, the percentage of moms who stay at home is now actually on the rise. joining us is stephanie kunz. she's currently the public education at the council on contemporary families. when you tut it on the scale and measure it to colleges, it's eye-opening here. >> it is an expensive investment, and it's an investment we should make as a society. it's fwood for families, for women to be able to work. it's fwood for kids to have high quality child care, and as you

say, it's just kind of outrageous. there are also 22 states where child care -- an average year of child care costs more than the average rent for an apartment or house. >> yeah. you know, the college years are so important to us as a society and country and we devote a lot of necessary attention to those years of our life. i don't have kids, but we talk about saving our money for the kids' education. we seem to shortcut child education, whether that's pre-k or before that, which is actually the most, i would argue, critical years of our lives. how do we change our way of thinking as a society so we make these early years more of a priority? >> well, i completely agree with you. it is more critical. we have to recognize it is about the best investment we should make. we should think of it as a social investment. everybody needs kids who grow up to be productive workers. otherwise, there's going to be no social security at all, no medicare, no future for those of us who are aging.

we all have a stake in having kids grow up healthy, and we know that early good child care and preschool and ours is really not very good even though it's so expensive. it increases their ability to go to college and succeed at college, but also even if they don't to hold down a steady job. we could think of this as one of the most he important social investments we make. we build roads. we don't ask every worker to use the woed rode that they build to get to their job. what is more important than our productive next generation? >> i absolutely agree with that. also, you want to think about who are the sort of people we allow to be in that position educating our children when they're so young? in other countries they tend to put more attention on who gets to do those jobs. in america it seems like almost anybody can get into those jobs.

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>> one of the most pristine brand names in all of america is duke university, but that brand was challenged in 2006 after a party thrown by duke lacrosse players which led it a black stripper alleging she had been raped. three students were indicted, but the allegation was later ruled false. the boys were declared innocent. the prosecutor was disbarred and jailed for a day, and duke paid about $20 million to each of the indicted players. it's extremely controversial incident that's covered in depth in the price of silence by the noted author and duke alum william cohen. thank you for being here. how did this situation get so out of control? >> it seemed to have it all. it was really kind of a dog bites man situation where, you know, usually you hear about a

white woman getting raped by a black man. okay. that's the usual way we hear about these things. in this case you have three privileged elite athletes at duke university who, you know, thought it was a great idea to invite two african-american strippers to their party where they had been drinking all day, and then one of them later accused three of these guys of raping her in a bathroom and sexually assaulting her. when the media got ahold of that and the police got ahold of that and the prosecutors got ahold of that, it became this incredible conflagration that we haven't seen the likes of it in a very long time. it was sort of the flight 370 or the bridge gate of its time. >> yeah. it was a toxic brew of race and class and power and all of those things mixed into one, and one of the people that came out looking like a villain here was the prosecutor, mike nifong, who was disbarred, spent some time in jail, has had his life

essentially ruined, and he was the one who initially was sort of fanning the flames here, really took the side of the accuser and created in some parts -- in some ways the media circus. he hadn't spoke we know a journalist since this all happened, but he spoke to you. what did he have to say? >> well, naturally he had a lot to say, and it's going to be hard to summarize it here. if i could try to summarize what he said, a lot of people think that mike nifong should be, you know, put in a grave at an early grave and forgotten about forever. this is a guy who spent 28 years in the durham prosecutor's office, was generally well regarded as a prosecutor. suddenly he gets this case. he sees this case come across his desk. by the way, it had already been started before he even knew about it. there has already been a judge's order requiring that the players provide their dna evidence because they had agreed initially to do it voluntarily and then their lawyers advised them not to. a judge then ordered them to. by the time he got to this case,

it was already well underway. basically he believed the nurse who examined crystal. >> crystal is the accuser. >> crystal was known as the victim through the course of this and became known as the accuser. he believed tara levacy, the nurse practitioner, the rape nurse, who examined crystal that night. he believed his police investigators. he believed his own gut. he believed that something happened in that bathroom. he believed it was a sexual assault, and he believed that this woman was raped. now, he never got to make that case because incredibly in this story, as was pointed out in the entry, there was no trial. he had to recuse himself because of actions of the state bar brought against him. he turned it over to the state attorney general, and as a result, you know, these boys were declared innocent, had a big settlement with duke, as you discussed, and so we'll never know. i think the justice system was severely distorted in this case. >> yeah, but nifong still believes something happened in

that. >> absolutely. he told me himself he believes something happened in that bathroom, something that caused crystal magnum to have a post-stress disorder reaction to what happened. now, crystal has had a very difficult life. i get into it in some detail in the book. >> you talked to crystal. i want to ask you. >> i talked to her, yes. >> she's really the central figure in all of this. >> yes. >> and she still believes she was raped. you had the chance to talk to her. do you believe that? tell us what she told you. >> so i visited with her in a durham jail while she was awaiting her trial for the murder of her boyfriend. that trial occurred last november. she has been convicted of murder. she's now in a raleigh women's prison for between 14 and 18 years. i saw her in the durham jail. you know, she no longer believes she was raped. the rape charge got dropped one.

she believes to this day that that's what happened to her. >> you believe that? >> well, don't know what to believe, honestly. there are so many stories. i mean, i tried to present this as fairly and as dispassionately as i possibly could. this, i believe, this book is the trial that never happened. do i believe something happened in the bathroom none of us would be proud of? i do believe that. i don't believe in this grand conspiracy all the defense attorneys would have this believe, this was a completely made up story, everybody got together to try to prosecute these three angelic boys who, you know, didn't do a darned thing. we'll never know what happened or who did it. >> bill, let me jump in. i appreciate your reporting here

on a tough case. even the terminology, as you use it, raipe, sexual assault. these are tough things. we have a problem in this country with what is called rape culture. a lot of people forget rape and sexual assault law s come out o totally sexist property law dynamic. the way the allegations were thrown around and the difficulty for that community evokes a lot of other cases. what can you tell us about any lessons learned here from the way that the united states deals with these kinds of allegations, assault, sexual assault, rape, anything you think should be done differently at a more systemic level? >> this is not a happy chapter for anybody. nobody comes out looking great. we like having davids versus goliath and we like to root for a hero.

in this case, i think everybody acted poorly. nobody acted in a way that we would be proud. i will tell you something, what confounds me to this day, why this became such a huge story in the media and why they then took the exact other side of the equation and sort of made these kids into heroes or victims themselves. what i find stunning, and i defy anybody to find me another case where three kid, three people were indicted. the district attorney was not allowed to bring the case. he had to recuse himself. the state attorney general investigated and used the word innocent. that word innocent -- you're a lawyer, i'm not. that word innocent is not one of these words that appears in trials or in courts very often. here in this case we have the state attorney general ray cooper declaring them innocent and he refused my request for

interviews. i just don't understand why. >> duke lacrosse has come to mean something. up turns what that means for all of us. congratulations on the book. best of luck with it. up next on the anniversary of the boston bombing, crystal talks about real patriotism. . they're who we protect. . they're why we make life less complicated. it's about people. we are volvo of sweden.

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rancher who has refused to pay the people of the u.s. what he owes for use of our land because he views the u.s. federal government as a foreign interroper. he denies legitimacy of our republic. though he's been found guilty twice by court, he seems to want to pick and choose the laws he feels like obeying. to manien right, he's a hero, a patriot. in fact, has become almost synonymous with right wing anti-government views. on the fringe quote/unquote patriot groups are grounded in extreme anti-government doctrine and impending government violence. names like 22nd field force alabama militia. many of the protesters grown to cliven bundy's ranch with firearms to do whatever it takes to keep cliven bundy from complying with federal law. the word patriot has become so closely associated with the political right that it was on

the now infamous irs bolo list, the implication being where you find the word patriot you will likely find a political active conservative group. in fact, a lot of what is done under this banner of patriotism is anything but. cliven bundy is no patriot over his refusal to pay money for his use of our land. the wisconsin republic party is not patriotic for supporting a resolution, enabling the state to secede from our union. the contempt that some on the right feel for their fellow citizens, mitt romney's famous 47%, the takers, the welfare queens, the young bucks buying t-bone steaks. paul ryan's generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and culture of work. that contempt for your fellow country men and women is anything but patriotic. we on the left should not allow conservatives to get away with claiming it as their exclusive

domain. we should not accept their loaded rendering of the term. real patriotism should be grounded in the recognition of the highest heights of power to the homeless veterans sleeping on the street. bonded together in a country that stands at its tallest of land of opportunity. grounded in striving to make more perfect that ideal of a fair shot for all so your station at birth does not determine your station at death. and real patriotism means making the country ever more democratic so the franchise is expanded and power's distributed to all the people, not just the ones who can afford to buy into the system. these are all liberal ideals that are frequently undermined by those claiming the mantle of patriotism. real patriots do what the citizens of boston are doing. they stand together, respect one another, fight for one another, and see the injustice of one as the injustice of all. because rich or poor, black or

white, democrat or republican, we are all americans. we're in this together. to a real patriot, that means something. i'd rather watch the folks in boston than even think of the gun toting anti-patriots in nevada somehow trying to make law breaker cliven bundy a hero. all right, that does it for now. "the cycle with alex wagner" is now. it is tuesday, april 15th. boston strong one year later. >> the one-year anniversary of the marathon bombings. a day of reflection and remembrance. >> of celebration of resilience and hope. >> the emphasis is on the recovery for the victims and the city. >> a tribute to the strength of a human spirit. that's on display. >> i never would have thought i was walking